Iran says no post-election protestors hanged: Via PressTV.ir .

Amid speculations that the 20 drug traffickers recently hanged in Iran were in fact individuals arrested in the country's post-vote unrest, deputy Tehran prosecutor moves to dismiss the claim.

Mahmoud Salarkia, Deputy Tehran Prosecutor in Prisons Affairs, confirmed on Wednesday that all those hanged earlier last week were convicted of drug trafficking.

Earlier on July 4th, Iran hanged 20 drug traffickers aged between 35 and 48 who had been arrested between 2004 and 2008.

The hangings provoked speculation in the country that the drug traffickers were in fact a number of the individuals arrested in the post-election unrest.

"Among those hanged there were no individual who had been arrested during the recent unrest in Tehran," Salarkia explained.
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